Isabella of France

Isabella of France (1295-22 August 1358) was the Queen of England from 1308 to 1327 with King Edward II of England. The daughter of Philip VI of France, she hated her abusive husband, and she led an invasion of England in 1326 with her lover Roger Mortimer, deposing him and forcing him to abdicate in favor of their son Edward III of England in January 1327.

Biography
Isabella was born in 1295 to Philip IV of France and Joan I of Navarre, and she was from the French Catholic House of Capet. Isabella was betrothed to marry the future Edward II of England at a young age, which would heal relations with the rival King Edward I of England. In 1308 she arrived in England and married Edward a year after he became king, and she bolstered her own power with the support of the Kingdom of France. She supported her husband's relationship with Piers Gaveston (be it homosexual or just friendly), but Piers was executed in 1312 by the barons (led by Earl Thomas of Leicester) after controversy. Their marriage reached a breaking point when Edward had a relationship with Hugh Despenser the Younger, who was exiled by the barons at first, but King Edward fought the barons in the Despenser War and defeated them, allowing him to continue his relationship with Hugh.

In 1325, Isabella travelled to France under the guise of a diplomatic mission, but she rendezvoused with the exiled noble Roger Mortimer, and the two of them agreed to depose Edward and the House of Despenser. In 1326, they invaded England with a small army that was later joined by deserters from the royal army, and they captured Bristol. In November, they captured Edward when he fled to Wales, and the rebels executed Hugh Despenser and Edmund FitzAlan. Isabella and Mortimer ruled over England, and in January 1327 they had King Edward abdicate, and Isabella's son became Edward III of England. However, Edward III had Roger executed when he took power in 1330, and Isabella had a nervous breakdown after Roger's death. She was held in house arrest, and she died in Castle Rising, Norfolk at the age of 63 in 1358.